James Bond's Aston Martin DB5 is for sale. This is the first time the iconic car has been offered to the public, and it is expected to fetch more than $5 million. We're already buying lottery tickets.
Owning a DB5 would be awesome under any circumstances, but this one sports a compliment of gadgets outfitted by Q. They're all there -- the revolving license plates, the bulletproof shield, the oil slick- and smokescreen-makers and the extending spinning knockoffs. You even get the machine guns that poke out from the front turn signals. They don't fire -- and never have -- but they do move into position at the push of a button. Just the thing for scaring the bejesus out of morons puttering along in the fast lane.
No one's saying whether the ejection seat works.
The DB5 being auctioned October 27 is one of two that Sean Connery drove in Goldfinger and the only one still on the road. It is easily the best of the cool cars Bond has driven through the years. Radio DJ Jerry Lee bought it from Aston Martin in 1969 for $12,000 -- about 70 grand in today's dollars -- after it appeared in Thunderball. He drove it through the 1970s then put it in storage. It's been there ever since. Lee, a philanthropist who is now 70, is selling it to benefit the Jerry Lee Foundation.
"Under normal circumstances we would expect classic car collectors to be interested," said Peter Haynes of RM Auctions, which is handling the sale. "But because it is 007's car then it should appeal to wealthy people who like collecting cultural iconic items, like Jimi Hendrix's guitar or Marilyn Monroe's dress."
This is cooler than Jimi's guitar or Marilyn's dress.
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